Elements of a social power schema: Gender standpoint, self-concept, and experience.
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Title
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Elements of a social power schema: Gender standpoint, self-concept, and experience.
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Identifier
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AAI9946172
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identifier
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9946172
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Creator
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Haines, Elizabeth Laura.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Vita Rabinowitz
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Date
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1999
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social | Psychology, Experimental
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Abstract
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Two studies investigated how people implicitly process and evaluate power-related information as a function of their perspective within a social system using the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald & Banaji, 1998). The first study explored how men and women implicitly associate power with gender and personal identity. Results indicated that both men and women possess associations between male gender and power more than female gender and power. In addition, results show that men hold implicit associations between self and power and their gender and power more than do women. The second study demonstrated that implicit self-power beliefs differ as a result of situational manipulations of social power in all female groups. Furthermore, self-power beliefs of powerful women were similar to men's responses in Study 1. Exploratory analyses indicate that self-described race/ethnicity and social class are associated with implicit power beliefs. Together, the studies suggest that social standpoints as well as experiences predict social power beliefs and contribute to a cognitive explanation for the stability of social hierarchy.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
